Serial podcast season 1 episode 39/16/2023 ![]() Namely: did anyone die while searching for Bergdahl after he left base and was captured by the Taliban? It was an important question – and one on which Bergdahl’s reputation seemed to balance – but aside from anecdotal posturing, no one had actually tried to answer it before. Not only did they let Bergdahl speak for himself, via a series of interviews with the film-maker Mark Boal, but they also asked and answered a question that no one – including the military or the US government – had seemingly bothered to investigate. While Bergdahl’s story had been covered exhaustively, including reports that he had been separated from the coast guard, diagnosed with a schizotypal personality disorder and may not have been fit for duty, Koenig and her team managed to add to the conversation. ![]() ![]() The story had made headlines years before Serial decided to tackle it. Even casual news readers had heard the story of the US soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan, was taken prisoner by the Taliban, held for five years, and only released after the government released five Taliban leaders from Guantánamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl’s freedom. ![]() Season two swapped a relatively obscure murder mystery for a very high-profile desertion – the case of Bowe Bergdahl. ![]()
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